Jeanette Fintz “Worldline Schreiber Paintings…Plus”

Garvey Simon Art Access

[Image: Jeanette Fintz "WorldLine Schreiber #3" (2016) acrylic on canvas, 60 x 72 in.]

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Garvey|Simon presents the exhibition, Jeanette Fintz: Worldline Schreiber Paintings… Plus, featuring a groundbreaking new series of work entitled Worldline Schreiber. The show is curated by Annette Benda Fox. This is the artist’s fifth solo show in New York City. A full color catalog with essay by Carter Ratcliff accompanies the show.

Fintz’s new Worldline Schreiber paintings (in the main gallery) leap into a spatially ambiguous zone via deconstructed linear geometry and a crystalline blue and white palette. The artist is manipulating geometry to create clashing gestures and elusive planes, often evoking psychological states. She uses two overlapping grid systems that destabilize the symmetry of the picture plane and offer a distillation and reinterpretation of her previous approaches.
To date, Fintz’s best-known abstract paintings have a vibrant color palette and kinetic, planar geometry derived from symmetrical grid systems. These paintings compose the second half of this exhibition and offer a counterpoint to her recent experimentations seen in the Worldline Schreiber works.

The term “Worldline Schreiber” came to Fintz in a vivid and influential dream, although she had no previous awareness of it. The German, “schreiber” translates to “writer” in English. In these paintings, the artist uses purposeful, geometric mark-making to reveal a narrative of space, matter and time. “Worldline” is a term most often associated with time travel in both physics and literature. In Einstein’s theory of relativity, time and space are mixed together: we cannot think of them separately. A “worldline” is a path of an object in 4-dimensional space-time, tracing the history of its location in space at each instant in time. In science fiction and mathematical fantasy, the term is described as a filament with a spiritual component that follows an individual from birth throughout a lifetime, getting increasingly more complex as relationships entangle and time passes.

Quoting Carter Ratcliff from his catalog essay Vital Geometries, Temporality and Timelessness in the Worldline Schreiber Paintings:

As manifold images arise from the artist’s fields of white, universal being in its all-encompassing generality takes on specific and thereby vital form. The Worldline Schreiber paintings are revelatory. Charging inorganic geometries with the richness of personal experience, they hold up metaphorical mirrors to the shifting complexities and clarities of our individual lives.